Karl Raimund Popper

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific community, influencing even working scientists, as well as post-war philosophy. This astonishing work ranks alongside The Open Society and Its Enemies as one of Popper's most enduring books and contains insights and arguments that demand to be read to this day.

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy', its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions became an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scientific knowledge grows, but also for applying those insights to politics and to history. It provides one of the clearest and most accessible statements of the fundamental idea that guided his work: not only our knowledge, but our aims and our standards, grow through an unending process of trial and error.

The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Conjectures and Refutations

This collection illuminates Popper's process of working out key formulations in his theory of science and indicates his view of the state of the world at the end of the Cold War and after the collapse of communism.

All Life is Problem Solving

Karl R. Popper

Covering such issues as the aims of science, the role it plays in our civilization, the moral responsibiliby of the scientist, the function of a university, and the choice between reason and revolution, this book defends science and rationality against distortions of its aims and ideals.

In Defence of Science and Rationality

The Myth of the Framework

Sir Karl Raimund Popper

The essays in this volume represent an approach to human knowledge that has had a profound influence on many recent thinkers. Popper breaks with a traditional commonsense theory of knowledge that can be traced back to Aristotle. A realist and fallibilist, he argues closely and in simplelanguage that scientific knowledge, once stated in human language, is no longer part of ourselves but a separate entity that grows through critical selection.

An Evolutionary Approach

Objective Knowledge

"In Search of a Better World is a collection of Popper's essays and lectures covering a range of subjects from the beginning of scientific speculation in classical Greece to the need for a new professional ethic based on the ideas of tolerance and intellectual responsibility. Popper discusses major figures of the Enlightenment sucha s Voiltaire and Kant, as well as logic of the social sciences and the role of science and self-criticism in the arts."--Back cover.

Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years

In Search of a Better World

A critical appraisal of political and historical philosophies, delineating the threat to freedom posed by several classical thinkers

The Open Society and Its Enemies: The spell of Plato

Written in political exile during the Second World War, The Open Society and its Enemies prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems.

درس القرن العشرين

Voici un livre de philosophie à la fois classique et déconcertant. On y traite de la liberté et du déterminisme à l'aide de nuages et de bulles de savon. On y construit une théorie du langage à l'aide de miel et de toiles d'araignées. Fort de cinquante ans de discussions avec physiciens, biologistes et logiciens, Popper renouvelle l'approche des questions les plus traditionnelles de la philosophie avec pour fil conducteur le progrès de la science, replacé dans le cadre plus général d'une philosophie de l'émergence du nouveau. Rassemblant des textes rédigés pour la plupart entre 1965 et 1971, La Connaissance objective est l'ouvrage le plus représentatif de la "dernière manière" de Popper. Il y révèle toutes les implications métaphysiques de son rationalisme critique et s'y risque à des conjectures audacieuses. Indispensable pour connaître les inflexions que prend alors la pensée de Popper, ce livre l'est aussi pour comprendre les débats de l'épistémologie contemporaine.

une approche évolutionniste

La connaissance objective

Tarihselciliğin sefaleti

Jeremy Shearmur

Piers Norris Turner

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Selected Social and Political Writings

After The Open Society

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La Television Es Mala Maestra

Reporting in great detail on important research Popper carried out between 1930 and 1933, "Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie" was not published in German until 1979. The two fundamental problems of knowledge that lie at the centre of the book are the problem of induction, that although we are able to observe only a limited number of particular events, science nevertheless advances unrestricted universal statements; and the problem of demarcation, which asks for a separating line between empirical science and non-science. Popper seeks to solve these two basic problems with his celebrate theory of falsifiability. He argues that science is separated from non-science not by the verifiability but by the falsifiability of its theories. He argues also that the inferences made in science are not inductive but deductive; science does not start out from observations and proceed to generalise them, as many presume, but start with problems, which it attacks with bold conjectures. "The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge" contains the seed of many of the celebrated arguments that were later to find definitive expression in Popper's most celebrated work, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery". --from publisher description.

Beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie

Comment la connaissance scientifique progresse-t-elle ? grâce à l'erreur. Des conjectures sont tout d'abord formées : on devine, on essaie des solutions. Puis ces conjectures sont soumises à la critique, c'est-à-dire à des tentatives de réfutation : on les teste. Dès qu'une théorie est réfutée, un progrès a été accompli, qui nous rapproche de la vérité ? Mais pourrons-nous jamais atteindre celle-ci. ? Conjectures et réfutations contient l'essentiel de la philosophie de Karl R. Popper (1902-1997) et prolonge, en la complétant par de nouveaux développements, sa célèbre Logique de la découverte scientifique.

la croissance du savoir scientifique

Conjectures et réfutations

William Warren Bartley

Realism and the Aim of Science

Bryan Magee

Sir Karl Popper Talks about Some of His Basic Ideas with Bryan Magee

Conversations with Philosophers

A brilliant account of the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Popper also explains some of the central ideas in his work, making this ideal reading for anyone coming to his life and work for the first time.

Karl Raimund Popper

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